Why Knowledge and Values are Inseparable

The European Institute for Knowledge & Value Management“ (EIKV) has set itself the task of simultaneously accentuating knowledge and values. Knowledge creates value and ensures values while values guarantee a framework and the breeding ground for knowledge allowing it to develop and multiply without constraints.

Neither knowledge nor values are minimised by sharing. Instead, they gain strength and assertiveness. Knowledge is a powerful engine of values and generating, refining and disseminating knowledge figures prominently in creating wealth in companies and in the social fabric of consciousness.

But we shouldn't forget that without an adequate set of rules, the availability or non-availability of knowledge can spark dangerous shifts in the power structure with dramatic consequences. EIKV is of the opinion that there is still too little attention paid to the substantial interdependence and interaction between knowledge and values. Both levels of this discourse address disjunctive target groups applying a highly specific range of methods that virtually exclude the idea of synergies.

Companies of all shapes and sizes have to develop a greater sensitivity for knowledge and values, the relevance they have for our lives and how their life-cycles function. The measure of the transitory nature of knowledge is not only its half-life, but also employee turnover or when employees turn away from their job and company for whatever reasons.